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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Hi Johan,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I attended a CrisisCamp in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boulder</st1:place></st1:City> today to go over
a few projects. I will cover what we were told from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Haiti</st1:place></st1:country-region> regarding the communications employed
by Haitians as of now. I think your project is a key ingredient. Enabling
Hatians to tell their own story is important to identity, healing and national
identity. You are on a good right path – non-tech solutions are needed to
a get more individual communications out of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Haiti</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Volunteers will have to
interpret them into a technical format. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Communications status in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Haiti</st1:country-region></st1:place>:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>SMS, mobile phones (voice only) and two
radio stations are functioning – that is all you can rely on. Radio is
what is holding the community together right now. Access to these is also a
communal effort. Many lost their phones and electronic devices during the earthquakes.
This is making any ability for geo-location tough as the phone may not be in
the hands of its owner.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>An important note is that Smart Phones were
not common to the general population before the earthquake. It is only the
elite class (10% of the population) that had widespread access to rich media. Ushahidi
overcame this hurdle with a short code for SMS messages for their crisis
mapping. Frontline SMS is also working on the ground – this is commonly
used for internal communications by humanitarian NGO’s. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Internet is down.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>What is critical to understand is that the
vast majority of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Haiti</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
population lives on less than two dollars a day. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Haiti</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s wealth is
concentrated into the upper class, and there is a sharp wealth disparity. 60%
do not have clean drinking water, and Kerosene is common for light to cut electricity
cost. For the majority of the population, radios and basic mobile phones are
the only economic probability. Television is often communal. The literacy rate
is low – so letters and written communication were also family or communal
efforts. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Google Voice is offering free phone calls
to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Haiti</st1:place></st1:country-region>
for family members for two weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Kendra Kellogg<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>E-Advocate Network.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>@eadvocate <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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